First step
towards a
film career

HAVE y. y uu ever. won-
- dered how a movie is
put together? |

>, Well [hhave. -

_ Tam a 16-year-old Grade
“I student at Carson Graham
secondary school who moved
’_ to North Vancouver and had
‘: no ideas on what to take in
my,Grade 11 year. In a book
of course selections there was
‘a course entitled Video .
-Production'12:— Career
; Preparation. Twas curious. -
ly. counsellor told me that j in
ideo Production } you have °
-ah opportunity to produce a
“video. from beginning io end.

‘Myc josity tumed to inter-. o

hoped a we: would mee 1 a

“was overwhelmed with all‘of:..” s
:who supported her son all the

the information. ‘Could A reat
‘. ly fulfill the requirements
‘thi

proposal and script. Shortly **

< after, we leamed to operate a. .

; ‘camera, “how to'set up the
- lights and how to use a boom
mikes”: :
: “My production team,

: “Concept Productions,” ‘pro- .

_ duced a'17-minute video for
“our sponsors, the North .. .

_ Vancouver Outdoor School i [in

. Paradise Valley | near

/ Squamish. i
The shooting at Outdoor

: Schcol vras hard. Day after

“day we would go to bed late.

and get up early to beat
everyone to breakfast.

: Director Heather Samson and
myself did a lot of talking ~

about future dreams and The
X-Files.

We had lots of fun shoot-
ing, but I think my favorite
memories would have to be
the trip coming down from

_ Outdoor School for the Jast

time. As we waited for the
train to come into Paradise .
Valley, a rock slide wiped out
the tracks a few miles before
our stop. We went back to the

. Ourdoor School and called -
.. Our parents and teacher and

‘told them we were driving
down instead, On the way
down ‘some of us slept but
the rest of us sang along to

“The Lion King” soundtrack
and hada blast.

I got a lot of work experi-
ence, more than 200 hours.
My production team and J all
became really good friends
over the 200-plus hours of
shooting we spent together.

A number of Video
Production 12 students have
gone on to work part-time at

+Mr. Edit Video Services, in

North Vancouver. One of
these students, Ryan Land, is
now holding a part-time job

“at Mr. Edit and attending col-
~. lege at the same time.

Boat the.end of my term,

with Mr. Newman, I did my
.. 100 hours ‘of work experience
“at Mr. Edit Video Services : «.
‘and they. liked:what I did,” °”

Land says. “I loved ideo .

Production. It taught me‘a lot:

of hands- on skills associated

“Orie of my fellow stu-

. dents, Craig McAuiister,

adds: .“In Video Production

_ ‘12, L learned the basic essen-

- ‘tial skills that would give me
a foot up in the video produc-

‘Tialked to Cra mom.

‘way. Mrs. McAllister would
often bring him dinner when

‘he worked late nights and
“. would talk to Mr. Newman
about various things.

“It is good that Mr.

Newman sets it up more like

a business than a class,”. she

_ Offered, “They have responsi-
bilities to meet and they have. ;
‘fo meet them.”

“Video Production has.

: taught me to be more'respon- *
‘sible and I have learned how

to take direction better.
[hope ene day I can look

_ ‘back on my year of video as .

the starting point for a great
career in the film business. -
Melissa Robson is a
Grade 11 Carson Graham
Student enrolied in Video
Production (2 at Leo
Marshall Curriculum Centre.

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